Location and Personnel

NAMRU-6 facilities were dedicated in 1985 and are located on the compound of Centro Medico Naval, the largest Peruvian Navy Hospital in Callao, the historic port city of Lima. NAMRU-6 has two buildings in the main laboratory and over 33,000 square feet of state of the art laboratories and an animal facility.
In 2006 NAMRU-6 consolidated scattered laboratory facilities in Iquitos into a new modern laboratory adjacent to the NAMRU-6’s existing Insectarium on the Peruvian Navy’s clinic on the Amazon River in Iquitos.
In May 2011, another NAMRU-6 laboratory was inaugurated in Puerto Maldonado (Madre de Dios). It is located inside the Peruvian Navy Village.

NAMRU-6 Iquitos Laboratory

The NAMRU6-Iquitos Laboratory is the most advanced diagnostic and research laboratory in Loreto, the largest Peruvian Department in the Amazonian Rain Forest and the NAMRU-6 operational base for conducting research and surveillance activities. This region is the site of the majority of NAMRU-6’s field studies in dengue, malaria, and diarrheal diseases. In close partnership with the University of California, Davis, NAMRU-6 has perhaps the most extensive dengue surveillance system and data in the world having tracked the disease since it’s appearance in the 90’s through the development of a significant problem with dengue hemorrhagic fever in current century.